Deriving relevant functional measures for automated development projects

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 499-512

  MacDonell, SG ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

data flow diagrams; development automation; entity relationship models; functional assessment; functional decomposition; software complexity; transaction representation; user interface

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS; ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODELS; FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION; FUNCTIONAL MEASURES; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; TRANSACTION REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0027668577     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(93)90017-W     Document Type: Article

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